Do you use a skimmer in your aquarium?

FishGrrl · #1 07/23/2006, 11:08 AM

This poll is to help gauge just how many seahorse keepers use skimmers on their seahorse tanks vs. those that don't. If you have seahorses, please respond to this poll. The wording of the poll refers to "system" rather than "aquarium" as some people have their seahorses in an aquarium that is remotely connected to a reef tank. If that is how your system is set up; please count the entired system; i.e. if the skimmer is on the reef tank, that is part of the "system".

The poll is multiple choice, so please choose all answers that apply if you have multiple systems with different configurations.

autumnb · #2 08/03/2006, 08:47 AM

I have a filter system called the back pack. One half of it is a skimmer where that water is fed into the other half. I do have bioballs in that half where the water is fed from the bottom to the top and then flows back into the tank. Any suggestion. I do like having the skimmer water feed into the other half as to prevent too many bubbles from going into my tank. I am very new at this type of tank, so please correct me if any of this in not the right thing to do. I have heard that I should take the bioballs out or even take a few out each time I change water and rinse and put back in, to help with nitrates.

theimpulsive1 · #3 12/29/2007, 08:59 PM

I use an in sump skimmer for my horses. The way they eat it would be hard not 2 use one.

buffalobunch · #4 12/31/2007, 10:25 AM

No skimmer. Sump and refugium

View Poll Results: Do you use a skimmer on your seahorse system?
I do not use a skimmer on my seahorse system(s).	24	39.34%
I use a HOT (Hang On Tank, Hang On Back) Skimmer on my seahorse system(s).	27	44.26%
I use a Sump Skimmer on my seahorses system(s).	14	22.95%
I use Other Skimmer on my seahorse system(s).	2	3.28%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 61. You may not vote on this poll